NEWARK, Del. — In contrast to the piercingly loud arena they had just left, the silence of the usually animated Sylvia Hatchell and her North Carolina players was striking.
NEWARK, Del. — On Sunday, the Bob Carpenter Center, where sixth-seeded Delaware matched up against 11-seed West Virginia, was deafeningly loud.
Growing up in Gastonia, North Carolina, women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell was the only girl on the playground, playing pickup games against boys who imitated NBA stars like Elgin Baylor and Jerry Lucas.
After the North Carolina women’s basketball team’s 59-54 first-round NCAA victory against Albany, coach Sylvia Hatchell said her team entered the game ready for the Bob Carpenter Center’s largely pro-Albany atmosphere.
This time last year, North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell and the NCAA were on poor terms. But as UNC heads into its first-round game Sunday against Albany as a three seed a year later, Hatchell seems to have reconciled her differences with the selection committee.
| No. | Player | Year | Pos. | Height |
| 1 | She’la White | JR | G | 5’5” |
| 2 | Latifah Coleman | FR | G | 5’9” |
| 4 | Candace Wood | SO | G | 5’11” |
| 5 | Nicole Powell | SR | G | 5’10” |
| 15 | Shannon Smith | FR | G | 5’7” |
| 20 | Chay Shegog | JR | F/C | 6’5” |
| 21 | Krista Gross | SO | G | 6’0” |
| 22 | Cetera DeGraffenreid | SR | /g | 5’6” |
| 32 | Waltiea Rolle | SO | F/C | 6’6” |
| 33 | Laura Broomfield | JR | F | 6’1” |
| 44 | Tierra Ruffin-Pratt | SO | G | 5’10” |
| 50 | Italee Lucas | SR | G | 5’8 |
| 51 | Jessica Breland | SR | F | 6’3” |
Head Coach: Sylvia Hatchell
Director of Basketball Operations: Greg Law
Associate Coach: Andrew Calder
Assistant Coaches: Charlotte Smith and Tracey Williams-Johnson
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